What’s On Sunday

8 P.M. (ABC) 2014 BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS Ludacris, above, hosts this ceremony, broadcast live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas and honoring Billboard chart toppers from March 11, 2013, through March 9, 2014, in genres including R&B, rap, pop, country, rock, Latin and alternative. “Slave to the Rhythm,” a never-released Michael Jackson song, is to be performed by a Jackson hologram. Jennifer Lopez will perform and accept the Billboard Icon award, given to an “enduring legend in music.” Lorde, Miley Cyrus, Ricky Martin, Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, Ariana Grande, Iggy Azalea, 5 Seconds of Summer, Florida Georgia Line, Imagine Dragons, Jason Derulo, John Legend, Luke Bryan, OneRepublic and Pitbull are scheduled to appear.

10 A.M. (Fox) FOX NEWS SUNDAY Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne, give their first joint interview since leaving office.

10:30 A.M. (CBS) FACE THE NATION Denis McDonough, the White House chief of staff, and Daniel Dellinger, national commander of the American Legion, discuss whether the Obama administration is doing enough to protect veterans.

7 P.M. (NBC) COLDPLAY: GHOST STORIES The band (left, Chris Martin, its frontman) presents songs from its coming album, “Ghost Stories,” in this concert special, directed by Paul Dugdale and featuring 360-degree performance footage filmed in front of an 800-person audience in Los Angeles in March. The playlist includes the new single “Magic,” as well as hits like “Viva la Vida,” “Paradise” and “Clocks.”

7:45 P.M. (Cinemax) 42 (2013) Chadwick Boseman, left, portrays Jackie Robinson, a shortstop for the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro leagues, a four-sport athlete at U.C.L.A. and an Army officer during World War II. Harrison Ford plays Branch Rickey, the president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers who chose Robinson to become the first black major leaguer of the modern era. When Rickey calls his new player “superhuman,” he means Robinson will have to rise above provocation in the face of prejudice and hostility to become a flawless exemplar of his race. “While ‘42,’ Brian Helgeland’s new film about Robinson, gestures toward the complicated and painful history in which its subject was embroiled,” A. O. Scott wrote in The New York York Times, “it is blunt, simple and sentimental, using time-tested methods to teach a clear and rousing lesson.”

8 P.M. (FX Movie Channel) THE DESCENDANTS (2011) Matt King (George Clooney, in an Oscar-nominated role), whose ancestors include the earliest white settlers in Hawaii, struggles to make the right decision about his family’s birthright, a pristine tract on Kauai — should it be sold to developers? — while his wife, Elizabeth (Patricia Hastie), lingers in a coma after a boating accident. Not long after Matt learns he is about to become a widower and a single father to two difficult daughters, Scottie (Amara Miller) and Alex (Shailene Woodley), he discovers that his wife had an affair. And Elizabeth’s enraged father (Robert Forster) blames Matt for his daughter’s condition. The director Alexander Payne, “with a light touch and a keen sense of place — this Hawaii is as real and peculiar as the Nebraska of ‘About Schmidt’ or the California wine country of ‘Sideways’ — has made a movie that, for all its modesty, is as big as life,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times. “Its heart is occupied by grief, pain and the haunting silence of Elizabeth, whose version of events is the only one we never hear. And yet it is also full of warmth, humor and the kind of grace that can result from our clumsy attempts to make things better.”

9 P.M. (CBS) THE GOOD WIFE Season 5 ends as an open feed from a camera mistakenly left on after a teleconference reveals a threat to Florrick/Agos that Alicia (Julianna Margulies) and Cary (Matt Czuchry) could not have imagined. Louis Canning (Michael J. Fox), meanwhile, maneuvers to assume a greater role at Lockhart/Gardner.

10:30 P.M. (HBO) VEEP While visiting Britain on the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I, the staff of Selina (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) frets that she’s being unduly influenced by her personal trainer, Ray (Christopher Meloni). Jonah (Timothy C. Simons) arrives to spy for the team of Maddox (Isiah Whitlock Jr.). KATHRYN SHATTUCK